Apparatus for dosing liquids and gases



Apri] 15, 1941. G. oRNsTEIN APPARATUS FOR DOSING LIQUIDS AND GASES Filed nai-ch 24, 19:57

Patented Apr. 15, 1941 OFFICE APPARATUS `FOR DOSING LIQUIDS AND SES Georg Ornstein, New York, N. Y.

Application March 24, 1937, Serial No. 132,856 In Germany July 12, 1935 (CCI. 210-40) 2 Claims.

This invention relates to apparatus for dosing liquids and gases.

It is frequently necessary for industrial purposes to introduce into a flowing liquid or gas 1 denite quantities of another liquid or another gas, either for carrying out reactions or for cleaning purposes or the like.` So long as the because it is only necessary to adjustfthe liquid or gas to be introduced to a definite rate of ilow and to introduce it through a vpipe-line into the liquid or gas under treatment. It is considerably more diilicult to effect the dosage if the medium under treatment has a varying rate of flow and may possibly also be `under a higher pressure than atmospheric pressure. Numerous apparatus have been proposed for such working conditions, but have never b-een introduced into practice.

The object of the present invention is an apparatus which ensures the solution of the aforesaid problems in a particularly simple and certain manner and with the aid of which quantities of material which are proportional to the rates of flow can also conversely be removed from the flowing liquids or gases for the purpose of taking samples.

The apparatus of this invention consists sub-- stantially of a measuring device of any desired construction inserted in the pipe-line of the 'flowing medium, for example a revolving fan or propeller meter, annular piston meter, Venturi tube or any other device, in which a rotary orreciprocal movement is produced by the flow of the medium in a xed ratio to the rate of now, for example a centrifugal pump or piston-pump. This movement is transferred to a distributing member for example a distributing piston which in turn introduces a pressure agent, for example a liquid standing under a certain pressure, for which purpose the flowing medium itself may be employed, into a power-producing device, for example `a cylinder provided with a piston. Owing to the fact that the distributing device feeds the pressure agent to the power-producing device at a varying rate corresponding to the varying rate of flow of the medium under treatment, a varying quantity of the substance to be introduced may be conveyed from a dosing device, constructed for example as a pump and connected with the power-producing device, or conversely be removed therefrom for the purpose of taking samples or the like.

In place of a cylinder and piston another devicegfor example a membrane chamber which is divided into two halves by a movable membrane inserted therein, or the like may be used as power-producing device.

One embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying diagrammatic drawing.

The drawing illustrates an apparatus, with the aid of which for example predetermined quantities of purifying or sterilising materials are introduced into a water supply.

l represents the pipe line containing the flowing material, in the present instance water, and 2 a water meter. The water meter is directly connected by a shaft 3 with a rotating distributing piston 5 disposed within a cylinder 4, water being supplied to the piston 5 from the Water pipe line l through the pipe 6 and branch pipes @a and l. Since the material supplied tothe distributing piston and accordingly also to the power device is the same as the material under treatment, i. e. in the present instance water, stufng boxes, such as are ordinarily required both for the meter and also for the distributing pistons, are avoided, and consequently the friction factor, which is considerable in practice, is eliminated. Three pipes 8o, 8b and 8c lead from the distributing piston, of which 8a and 8e serve to feed the power device, in the present instance a membrane chamber 9 with a membrane I0, while 8b constitutes the discharge pipe.

In the position of the distributing piston 5 shown the outflow from the pipe 6a to the pipe 8a is open, while that through the pipe 'l to 8o is closed. The pipe 8c on the other hand is connected by way of an opening in the distributing piston with the discharge pipe 8b. The water pressure can accordingl;7 be exerted on the left side of the membrane Il); The latter is pressed towards the right, so that thewater which was previously present on the right side thereof is pressed through the pipes 8c and 8b. Accordingly in the conveying device, consisting of the membrane chamber Il and the membrane I2, the latter is likewise moved towards the right, whereby the material to be dosed, for example aluminium sulphate solution, lime water, hypochlorite solution, chlorine gas, sulphur dioxide, oxygen or the like, is sucked in through the conduit pipe i8, I1 and the suction valve I9 indicated on the left and is thereafter conveyed by the movement of the membrane to the left out through the pressure valve 2U and the connecting pipe line 2| and introduced into the water flowing in the pipe line I.

For the dosing of gases, a few examples of which have been mentioned above, a few additional devices are required owing to the compressibility of the gases, such as a water cylinder or a membrane chamber I3 likewise actuated by the membrane chamber 9 and the membrane I0, which are simultaneously lled with water and discharge water and from which the water is pressed into the gas chamber of the membrane chamber II through valve I6 so that the water is pressed out of the membrane chamber during the pressure impulse of the gas. The water may be introduced into the membrane chamber I3, for example from the pipe S through a valve I4a and a pressure-reducing device, for example a box I4 provided with a floating valve, may be inserted between the pipe 6 and the valve Ida, if necessary.

What I claim is:

1. An apparatus for adding to a iiowing stream of fluid proportional quantities of another fluid, comprising a conduit through which the stream flows, a ow responsive device disposed in said conduit and operated in accordance with the flow of the stream, a casing directly connected in sealed relationship with the housing of said ow responsive device, means for directing a portion of the flowing stream to said casing to act as a pressure medium, a power device, conduit means affording communication between said casing '30j first pumping device for forcing iiuid into the said rst pumping device, and a control piston mounted in said casing and directly connected to and operated by said flow responsive device for controlling the passage of the pressure medium from said casing to and from said power device which is actuated by the pressure medium.

2. An apparatus for adding to a flowing stream of fluid proportional quantities of another fluid, comprising a conduit through which the stream ows, a flow responsive device disposed in said conduit and operated in accordance with the iiow of the stream, a casing directly connected in sealed relationship with the housing of said ow responsive device, means for directing a portion of the flowing stream to said casing to act as a pressure medium, a power device, conduit means affording communication between said casing and said power device for the passage of the pressure medium, means including a discharge conduit from said casing for permitting release of the pressure medium, a pumping device operated by said power device for effecting the addition to the owing stream of uid of the fluid to be added, an additional pumping device actuated by said power device in unison with said first pumping device for forcing fluid into the said first pumping device, means including a check valve for controlling the supply of iiuid which .is forced into said rst pumping device by said additional pumping device, and a control piston mounted in said casing and directly connected to and operated by said ow responsive device for controlling the passage oi the pressure medium from said casing to and from said power device which is actuated by the pressure medium.

GEORG ORNSTEIN. 

